Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-12
evidences Of their long-continued de-
prcdations, were cut loose and searched.
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freight train necossilsted the guilty
knowledge and actual participation OF
the conductor, the middle brnk smen
Tone or more), and the rear brakeman
or flaPman. Ii did not OF n necessity
take In the front brakeman or hagman,
nor the engineer nor fireman, but the
others had to be in 10 make it work.
and it did work. IL was not required
that they should wreck trains to rob.
They were fner-fngered operators
than that. They were no mere
oatherers-up OF scattered goods,
like the mob who carried off hams
at riots. Every excuse which they
knew could not well he denied was
given for the broken cars, when they
neglected (which they frequently did
10 seal or lock them up; and again,
Government bonded cars were broken,
perhaps oftener than the ordinary
Union line or common freight cars. In
these they always knew they could get
choice goods. Silks, cigars, rifles, al
kinds OF imported firearms, and catldies
Of tobacco seemed TO besome of their
necessities. Boxes OF shoes and q gen.
eral ruL OF merchant supplies for their
every day use were found openly in the
caboose-cars Of each train.
Hundreds of boxes which had con-
tanned the finest of imported cigars were
found on these trains boldly used by
the men to hold their caps and Overalls
and lanterns and waste-stuf. So bold
had they become that the United States
regulations, strict as they are. had lost
oil terror for them. Whilst custom
house officers were trying to trace
the goods, and merchants here and
elsewhere corresponding with shippers,
and special agents Mt special pay
were wondering how this could possibly
be, and loading down letter-boOks with
theories which few around as indefinite
rs smoke, the operators smoked their
Bavanas within the very shadow Of the
court or custom-house and laughed at
their masters who suffered loss. Fires
were in progress to-day all along the
line of the Panhandle road, made up
of stuff taken out of caboose-cars.
GETTING IN EVIDENCE.
That evidence of things not seen
may not be wanting When the
trial comes, word was tele9raphed
along the road for particulars of each
case. The freight trains have hauled
up OF the water stations, and delay
made until the caboose was swept and
garnished, and in doing SO evil
dence has been procured against nm
suspected railroad-men which it will
be hard to oyerturn. Almost every
man arrested had from one to ten pawn
tickets for all sorts of articles on his
person. 1t is alleged that every pawn
| shop in the two cities OF Pittsburgh and
| Allegheny is represented on tickets.
| An amount Of several thousand dollars
is said to be recoverable in this way
alone.
About the Panhandle yards to-day
there was a scene of quietness that in
dicated that something unusual had
happened. Where there is usually O
scene of noisy hustle the crews of men
that had been arrested had left large
number of trains deserted. There
were twenty-four of these trains piled
closely together on side tracks
in tile yards. The detention Of
freight, however, was only temporary.
Tie railroad officers had taken special
precautions to continue moving their
freight promptly. An extra force OF
sixty men had been employed. These
we're put on the deserted trains in the
place of the arrested employees. When
it became generally known that large
number of men had been arrested APP
plicants for positions commenced to
flock to the depot by scores.
CONFESSION BY BINGLEADRR.
At late hour tonight j. r. Dunlop,
who is regarded as a ringleader Of the
gang, made a confession to the detec-
lives, in which he implicated several
outsiders, and located fences" at
Dcnnison, Ohio, New Philadelphia,
and other places.